The Sega CD is treated like the unwanted step-child of the CD expansions. Early CD systems and expansions before the PlayStation were not the breakthrough product their manufacturers hoped they would be. They did not deliver the substantially superior gaming experiences they promised and were generally considered too expensive for what they did deliver. And what they delivered was often unimpressive, ports of cartridge games with enhanced audio and superfluous cutscenes, FMV games which relied on route memorization, PC game ports that had no business being run on hardware that did not have a hard drive, a keyboard or a desk with which to use a mouse and interactive entertainment software which was barely interactive and not entertaining. Today we are going to take a look at the Sega CD, its hardware, its quirks and ultimately the games that make it worth considering as a device on which to play games rather than to put on a collector's shelf.
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